George+Slater

On November 20, 1925, 23-year-old Helen Bain, nee Ingersol, died in Chicago from complications of a criminal abortion performed that day. Dr. George Slater was arrested on November 21 for Helen's death. Slater was indicted by a grand jury for homicide on May 1, 1926.

George Franklin Slater, an allopath, was born February 18, 1875, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and died at age 53 on June 19, 1927 in Chicago. He graduated from Fort Wayne College of Medicine in 1896.